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Scotland and the First World War : Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Bucknell University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611487770
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Scotland and the First World WarDDC classification:
  • 940.3411
LOC classification:
  • D547.S38.S368 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Anniversary Culture and the Legacy of Bannockburn -- Part I. ANNIVERSARY CULTURE -- Chapter 1. Missing Dates and Magic Numbers: Reflections on 1914 -- Chapter 2. Bruce, Wallace, and the Diminished Present, 1800-1964 -- Part II. MAKING THE MYTHS OF WAR AND NATION -- Chapter 3. "Men Brave and Strong": Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance, and Scottish Martial Identity in the Late Middle Ages -- Chapter 4. "Not My Land's Hills": War and the Problem of Scottish Homecoming -- Chapter 5. Medieval Battlefields and National Narratives, 1830-1918 -- Chapter 6. Bannockburn after Baston -- Part III. MAKING THE MEMORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- Chapter 7. "The Spirit of the Crusaders": Scottish Peculiarities, British Commonalities, and European Convergences in the Memorialization of the Great War -- Chapter 8. Buchan, Bannockburn, and Beyond: Popular Histories of Scotland's Martial Past -- Chapter 9. Women, War, and Internationalism: Notes toward a Counterhistory -- Chapter 10. Freedom from Judgment Above?: Predestination and Cultural Trauma in Scottish Gaelic Poetry of World War I -- Chapter 11. Shades of Bruce: Independence and Union in First World War Scottish Literature -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war has shaped Scotland.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Anniversary Culture and the Legacy of Bannockburn -- Part I. ANNIVERSARY CULTURE -- Chapter 1. Missing Dates and Magic Numbers: Reflections on 1914 -- Chapter 2. Bruce, Wallace, and the Diminished Present, 1800-1964 -- Part II. MAKING THE MYTHS OF WAR AND NATION -- Chapter 3. "Men Brave and Strong": Bannockburn, the Auld Alliance, and Scottish Martial Identity in the Late Middle Ages -- Chapter 4. "Not My Land's Hills": War and the Problem of Scottish Homecoming -- Chapter 5. Medieval Battlefields and National Narratives, 1830-1918 -- Chapter 6. Bannockburn after Baston -- Part III. MAKING THE MEMORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- Chapter 7. "The Spirit of the Crusaders": Scottish Peculiarities, British Commonalities, and European Convergences in the Memorialization of the Great War -- Chapter 8. Buchan, Bannockburn, and Beyond: Popular Histories of Scotland's Martial Past -- Chapter 9. Women, War, and Internationalism: Notes toward a Counterhistory -- Chapter 10. Freedom from Judgment Above?: Predestination and Cultural Trauma in Scottish Gaelic Poetry of World War I -- Chapter 11. Shades of Bruce: Independence and Union in First World War Scottish Literature -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war has shaped Scotland.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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